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That Annoying HUM!

Thanks for the link graylien. I've been wondering about LFN for awhile myself but haven't looked into it. This past August, having just moved across the country to New England, I noticed a low whistle that would drop an octave mid-whistle. I'd hear it intermittently between the hours of 1am and 3am. I asked other people in our building about it, but nobody knew what I was talking about. My husband couldn't hear it either. By October the whistle was gone, or at least I wasn't hearing it anymore. What's interesting was that there was a rooster nearby that used to go off at all hours of the day and night. No self control at all ~ it must have crowed upwards of thirty times a day! As soon as the whistle disappeared, the rooster returned to crowing only at sunrise! So humans aren't the only ones bothered by LFN (maybe?).

As for your intuiting that the hum you heard was the product of a weapon being tested on the airbase, travbot; I think that's a definite possibility and not in the least bit paranoid. In a worst case scenario, you or your area could have been deliberately targeted. I know I'm off in conspiracy land without even the proper jargon, but that's a wierd experience you and your wife had (are having) and it certainly could be any number of things, including some kind of (psychic weapon?).

The reason I'm posting on this thread (and at length apparently :oops: ) is that my husband and I spent the first thirty-some years of our life in a relatively unpopulated northern state, and when we moved to New England in 2000, we both felt as if a blanket had been dropped over us. In other words, we felt intellectually, creatively, emotionally and physically stifled, or muted. We also felt as if the air were buzzing with like, I don't know, disinformation I guess. Believe me, I know how nutty that sounds, and we put it down to adapting to a densely populated enviornment in which the air prolly was buzzing with all kinds of different frequencies and transmissions. The odd thing was, after spending two years in New England we moved to an equally densely populated West Coast city, and immediately felt free and happy. Stayed there for two years and then moved back to New England = same old sh*t. My husband and I are once again feeling as if someone has turned us to the "low" setting. It's not seasonal affective disorder either, it's a year-round thing. Make of it what you will, but neither of us can wait to get out of here. :snore:

EDITED to make some paragraphs and have place names be more vague. ;)
 
not nutty at all, i think.....we live in an old house literally on the border of 'classy historic district' and 'disrepaired ghetto' with alot of crime. wouldn't the citizens of the ghetto, it being such a focused area of town, be perfect targets for a fly-over-n'-beam-down sort of sonic experiment? the sound really did have me in discomfort, i pretty much only fell back asleep from pure frustrated exhaustion.....not to be more paranoid, but they've been flying alot of blimps over town lately.....plain white blimps from what i can see...the police bought one for use in the 'riotous' g-8 summit that didn't quite get as explosive as they would have hoped.....maybe they're miffed they didn't get to use thier sound guns as well......

and yes, Savannah is quite a black hole of energy & creativity. We're both artists in an art school town with a very high cost of living and we're trying desperately to save up enough to get the 'F' out ASAP.... thanks for sharing!

edit: i had my friend's recorder last night, but nothing happened this morning other than i woke up just as early, but to no sound, just by 'response'.......darn.
 
travbot said:
we live in an old house literally on the border of 'classy historic district' and 'disrepaired ghetto' with alot of crime.
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So do we! Hence the rooster ;) . It hadn't occurred to me that the whistle I heard may have been targeted at our ghetto. :( :grrr: I'm disappointed to hear that Savannah is a crap place. It markets itself as being so genteel and lovely. Of course, those two words are in some ways the opposite of 'energetic and creative' aren't they? Sounds like the sooner you get out of there, the better. Good luck!
 
I apologize if you have already said this and I missed it, but it's about 5:30 am and I'm tired. Anyway, do you have any neighbors who have heard it?
 
Have merged hum threads.

There's a selection of press cuttings from all over the UK about hums various here. We've had a Hum in Bristol for years - I've heard it a fair few times in the very early morning: it varies in intensity, but the pitch is always the same (fairly low), and very slightly louder outside - and I've heard it in various parts of the city, too, so that rules out a very localised source. I think it must be transmitted through the ground, and local geology possibly influences the intensity with which one hears it.
 
Heard it again this morning, haven't heard it for a few days ... I was getting lonely for it :)
 
Might ley lines be an idea (if they're not totally scoffed at these days)? Bristol is supposedly located on one.
 
update

haven't heard it for a few days now...just strong those first two days, then nothing, then once again on the fifth morning, but it was weaker or i was able to sleep past it.....nothing since, other than i keep waking up around the same time it took place, but i attribute that to my internal clock.......
sad....i really wanted to get it on digital audio...! :(
 
Heard it again this morning, round about 8 am onwards. It kept coming and going, and was noticably louder when there was traffic on the road ...
 
Are you sure it wasn't someone listening to the new Wilco album? (A track with twelve minutes of white noise)!
Seriously, I have heard lots of scary stuff about Wales. Have you heard about the cave near Betws-Y-Coed where people have been drawn to, having heard music?
This is reminiscent of the Greek myth of sirens, women whose song would lure men to their deaths. This is alluded to in Homer's Odyssey, as Odysseus ties himself to his ship's mast in order to avoid the temptation of their cries (who steered the boat? lol).
I am sure that I have read other stories about creatures similar to the sirens, but whose wails were more of an annoying hum. Yeah, it must be that.
 
You say it gets worse when there is lots of traffic on the road?
The resonance of machinary should not be underestimated. The vibration of the road could cause the ground to vibrate in an unusual way, causing sounds.
Resonance can be very disturbing. Once, my gran was vacuuming in the kitchen and the resonance of the machine caused to oven door to shatter.
 
jwilding said:
You say it gets worse when there is lots of traffic on the road?
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It got louder, the humm was there whether there was traffic on the road or not.
 
jwilding said:
This is alluded to in Homer's Odyssey, as Odysseus ties himself to his ship's mast in order to avoid the temptation of their cries (who steered the boat? lol).
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The rest of the crew stuffed their ears with cheese.
 
Regarding the early morning whistle travbot was hearing: page 1 of the "Sleep Paralysis and the Night Hag Experience" thread in the "Ghosts" forum has a post from Mr. Bingo, who says he sometimes has hypnopompic (waking up) experiences wherin he hears an uncomfortable sounding whistle that makes him want to wake up. The URL was soooo long I decided not to post it. :roll:
 
It's a bit of a PITA but can be done:

{url=http://blah.blah.blah}Text{/url}

Replace { } with [] as appropriate.
 
Wasn't there an XFiles episode where some weird hum was killing people after driving them mad? I remember an old, deaf lady lived but her bird died. And this guy made Mulder drive across country trying to escape it (or something) but ended up dying when they reached the ocean. It was some sort of government experiment, IIRC, so maybe the theory of it being the military base isn't too farfetched after all. Granted, that was television but a lot of those episodes had loose bases in reality. Maybe the truth IS out there.
Sorry, I couldn't resist. :oops:
 
The original poster stated that he lived in Abergavenny, a lovely place in rural Wales which I drive by every now and then to work. It strikes me that this is exactly the kind of place where one might find an Army Base; the area is rural, but not in the middle of nowhere.

Hereford, of course, is not far - home of the SAS. I'm told there's also a base halfway between Hereford and Abergavenny on the main road. Apparently you can see the radio masts on the right hand side as you drive towards Aber.

Going back a bit, there used to be the HQ of an Engineer General Service Regiment in Abergavenny. This was in the last war, but these bases have a habit of being re-used. (Rudolph Hess was kept in Abergavenny too, in some base somewhere!)

There's also an Army 'Base Camp' at Ty Isaf, near Abergavenny.

There's a British Rail maintainence plant nearby, at least there was in 2003, which has been the subject of a question in the House of Commons regarding 'unbearable' 'noise' at night. Not sure if it's a hum, or not!

LINK

(One hell of an url, but it seems to work. Scroll up a bit.)

Wait! I've found the cause! Well, at least on 17th September 2005..
http://www.uktouring.org.uk/thebighum/dates.htm
:p

Quite a few UFO sightings in the area too, if you google.
 
I often hear a low frequency hum during the night, it's always when the wind is blowing from the car factory (Nissan, Sunderland). Have you checked the wind direction on the nights when you hear your hum? Checking the dir. on a map may provide some clues.
There was a period a couple of years ago in Sunderland when the local paper was inundated with complaints about a low (but very intense) hum. This was eventually traced to a local glass factory, the extractor fans (very powerful) were producing it.
 
And as if by magic, this letter appears in the letters page of the Sunderland Echo today. Is that Fortean?! ;)



APPARENTLY Sunderland is to be revitalised again! If this is true, perhaps the council will also get this low-frequency noise which pervades my home almost 24 hours per day stopped. It has now gone on for two and a half years to my knowledge and is from Sainsburys in Silksworth Lane and they are fully aware of the facts.

Russ.
 
Hello, this is my first post here 8)

I had to reply to this thread. I have heard a wierd humming noise now for a long time. Mostly about 2/3 am. Sounded like the sound pylons give off when it rains... strangely though it doesn't seem to be coming from one place just from the air in general.

Once, it woke me up once at about 5am, it was a very high pitched sound. I could hear horses in the stables near me, making that wierd braying snorting sound they do when they are frightened (this is when I lived in Cwmbran...so fairly near Abergavenny)

Anyway, I went outside and recorded the sound on my mobile. I took 10 x2 min recordings andlistened to one back and the sound was on there as well as a wierd clicking sound. Anyway, I tried to listen to more and my phone froze, I had to take sim card out and reboot phone. When I got phone back working, all the recordings were there but silent (nothing on them) :shock: :shock:


I guess its some wierd electrical/ magnetic force that can mess up instruments :shock:

Anyway, I live in Cardiff now and still here it but only early mornings, never late at night, just roughly 2 am through to dawn... wierd....


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I have only stupidly spelt my name wrong though :lol: :roll: It's meant to be Apocalypse cow (hi to any HB readers!!) Does anyone know if and how I can correct it *doh!!*
 
apocalypse cow said:
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I have only stupidly spelt my name wrong though :lol: :roll: It's meant to be Apocalypse cow (hi to any HB readers!!) Does anyone know if and how I can correct it *doh!!*
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Hi apocalypse cow. I've changed it for you and welcome to the FTMB :)
 
I was on the way to Hayle in Cornwall and I was reading our beloved FT and there was a short article on the Hayle hum. On one of the nights we were staying there, I was woken up by a grinding noise coming from outside! Less of a hum, it sounded more like my parents old noisy dishwasher or a breadmachine. Although I knew the house I was staying in had neither. I definately didn't dream about it as I got up and closed the window to try and drown it out. Attached to the window was a wind chime that made enough noise to wake the dead as I shut the window.

I don't really know all that much about Hayle to suggest where it might have come from, but it's a fairly small place.
 
There is a mysterious hum in the area of Bocholtz/Aachen (Germany) and Limburg (Holland). There is now even an "Interest Group for Research of the Hum Nuisance".

It has all the usual properties of the other hum phenomena. Some researches say it is heard all over Germany.

Links in English:
http://www.igzab.de/Ausland/English/english.html
The site also has links to research reports on the Kokomo hum.

Links in German:
http://www.wdr.de/themen/forschung/umwelt/brummen/index.jhtml?rubrikenstyle=panorama

Links in Dutch:
http://www.dossierx.nl/index.php/content/view/322/

And a quick Babelfish translation :D from one of the German articles:

"Above all the women suffer" says the speaker of the interest group to the clarification of the Hum, Matthias Mayer. The society established itself 2001 in order to represent the interests of the concerned. In the mean time 1,500 concerned reported out of the entire country to the society. "This is no local problem", means Mayer. Hum-phenomena would be reported in the USA, in Slovenia and now also in the Netherlands.

The society assumes that electric and electro magnetic radiation out of mobile phones in the ear release a false signal. "We need scientist on that work", demands Mayer. Otherwise it remains only a supposition. And that does not help further.
 
A few years back I used to wake up to an awful, high pitched humming sound that was coming from outside the house (I could only hear it when the window was open). Nobody else in my household could hear it and I thought I was going mad, until I discovered that my neighbours had purchased one of those little gizmos that scares cats and rodents by using a high pitched (and allegedly inaudible to humans) sound. I asked them to switch it off for a few days and lo and behold, no more whining sound.
Just a thought
 
We get an early morning hum here all the time.Its the kind of noise that drills into your brain after a while
 
There is an American TV show still running called _Unsolved Mysteries_ I recently saw an episode where they interviewed people who hear this "humming" noise. It was fascinating because only *they* are able to hear it, for whatever reason, and they formed these groups connecting people with similar capablities all over the world...you may want to check into that, I'm sure they have a web site :)

Anyway...they speculated that it might have something to do with government sonar, a specific type that is supposedly undetectable because they discovered a correlation between military activity and the frequency of the humming --it increased in cases of war, etc.

hope this help!
 
chez1807 said:
We get an early morning hum here all the time.Its the kind of noise that drills into your brain after a while
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That wouldn't be in Hayle would it ?
 
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